Many people dream of finding that long-lost treasure in a family attic, but of those dreams how many revolve around a manuscript? For one man, the pages of the manuscript turned out to be treasure more valuable than jewels: the diary of Henry T. Gorrell, a UP press correspondent who from 1936 to 1943 followed the threads of war all over Western Europe. But it's more than a war story, as I note, it's about an extraordinary man.
BiblioBuffet - Writing Worth Reading, Reading Worth Writing About - In the Thick of It: A War Correspondent’s Discovered Journals 09/20/09
Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa 1936-1943 (University of Missouri Press, 2009)
